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10 Stars Who Served Time Behind Bars

Ten famous faces who did the crime and paid the time.

Paris Hilton

In May 2007, socialite and reality TV star Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for
violating her probation following a drunk-driving arrest in September 2006. Hilton only ended up
serving 2 days of her 45-day sentence before being reassigned to 40 days of home confinement due to
an undisclosed medical condition.

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Boy George

In December 2008, in a London court, '80s pop star Boy George, whose real name is George Alan
O'Dowd, was convicted of the assault and false imprisonment of Audun Carlsen. He was later handed a
15-month prison term for the crime. However, George only spent four months of his sentence in
prison. In May 2009, he was released under the conditions that he wear an ankle monitor and remain
under curfew for 90 days.

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Michelle Rodriguez

Rodriguez has been in and out of jail four times. In June 2004, she spent 48 hours in a Los Angeles
jail after pleading guilty to hit and run, drunk driving, and driving with a suspended license. In
April 2006, the Avatar actress pleaded guilty to a DUI charge in a Hawaii
court and spent five days in jail. Since that DUI charge violated her Los Angeles probation,
Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail but was released less than 24 hours later due to
overcrowding. In September 2007, Rodriguez violated the terms of her probation again and was
sentenced to 180 days but was released after just 18, also as a result of overcrowding.

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Kiefer Sutherland

In September 2007, 24 star Kiefer Sutherland was charged with misdemeanor
drunk driving in Los Angeles. Sutherland pleaded no contest to the charge and was sentenced to 48
days in jail. He served the full 48 days of his sentence beginning in late 2007.

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Robert Downey Jr.

In 1997, a pre-Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. missed one of his court-ordered
drug tests (mandated as a result of a drug-possession arrest in 1996) and spent four months in a
Los Angeles County jail as punishment. The actor was arrested again after missing another drug test
in 1999 and was handed a three-year prison sentence. He served almost a year of the three-year term
at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, Calif., but was
freed on $5,000 bail after a judge ruled that his collective jail time (since 1996) had satisfied
the court.

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Nicole Richie

Back in 2007, after being arrested for driving under the influence, author and reality star Nicole
Richie spent a mere 82 minutes of her four-day sentence in jail. The sheriff’s department told
People magazine that she "was released early due to overcrowding in the jail system.”

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Christian Slater

In 1997, Christian Slater was sentenced to three months in jail and 36 months probation for
assaulting his then-girlfriend Michelle Jonas and a man who had come to her aid. The actor served
59 days before his release.

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Martha Stewart

In March 2004, Stewart was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and
making false statements to federal investigators after the U.S. government indicted the media mogul
on nine-counts related to an incident of insider trading. In July 2004, she was sentenced to a
five-month term in a federal correctional facility and a two-year supervised release. Stewart began
her prison stint at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson in W.Va. on October 8, 2004, and left the
facility under supervised release on March 4, 2005.

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50 Cent

Back in 1994, before he made it big, rapper 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson III) was arrested on drug
charges and sentenced to three to nine years in prison. Instead of doing his time in a standard
prison, he served an abbreviated six-month term in a shock incarceration boot camp, earning his GED
in the process.

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Tim Allen

Way before Tim Allen rocketed to TV stardom with Home Improvement, he had his share of legal trouble. In
1978, the actor and comedian was arrested for cocaine possession and sentenced to three to seven
years in prison. He was released on parole in 1981 after serving 28 months in a federal
correctional facility.